The world is a complex place, especially for young people. Transport, healthy eating, sexuality, bullying and exams rule their lives, and expectation is all.
Input is colossal, whether from TV, music, mobiles or computers. We have computer games being blamed for influencing young people in ways we haven't seen since The Exorcist supposedly sent a few over the edge. Recent events set me thinking about the mess-ages children are getting about the world they live in.
You may have heard about the boys on an expedition who killed and ate a deer. Apparently, they were sent out, unaccompanied, for the night and told to eat whatever they could find in true survival style. They unwittingly stumbled across a deer farm and did exactly what they were told. There was a huge outcry about cruelty to animals and the boys' perception that it was okay to cull the beast, cook it up and eat it.
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